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Maggye_718268-edited.jpg
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Date Uploaded: Sep 4, 2008

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 This is an edited version of Maggye's image discussed in this thread.

Editing steps (all in Photoshop CS3):
1) I wanted deeper reds and to balance some of the other colors a little better, so I started out by adding a B&W Adjustment Layer. Then I changed the layer blend mode to Luminance so that the image remained in color.

My reason for using the B&W adjustment layer is the "fine grained" selection of colors in the sliders. I manipulated the colors in the image by using the following settings:

Reds = -16
Yellows = 83
Greens = 47
Cyans = 73
Blues = -36
Magentas = 80

2) Next I wanted to adjust the contrast in the image, so I used a Curves layer with two anchor points. One at the intersection of the button and first lines. The other just slightly above and to the left of the intersection of the top and right lines.

3) Next I wanted to add some depth to the image. So I created a new layer (I used Alt-Ctrl-Shift-E to merge all of the layers into one layer. Then I did a Gaussian Blur of that layer at 20 pixels (basically made a blurry mess of the thing!). And then I switched the blend mode to Soft Light and set the percentage at 67%.

4) I felt the greens were just "too green" and didn't want to return to step #1 to play with them. So instead, I added a Color Balance Layer and I set the middle number of the green slider for midtones to -12 and to -8 for highlights.

5) At this point I was happy with the colors and just wanted to add some "clarity" to the image (which would cancel out a little of the blurriness added in step #3). To do this, I used the Unsharp mask at 10% with a wide pixel range of 60 pixels and a threshold of 0.

I flattened everything and uploaded it.

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 09/04/2008 11:56:57 PM
Thank you very much, I really appreciate this step by step explanation =)
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